Artist's writings

The autobiography, translated into French for the first time, of Ré Soupault (1901-1996), trained at the Bauhaus, photographer, filmmaker, stylist, writer and traveler, translator of Dada and Surrealism, major protagonist of European artistic, literary and intellectual life, and companion of the avant-garde throughout the 20th century.

Looking at the white gaze on Black life, art, and being, Chipo Chipaziwa's first book explores five years of her past performances without any photographic depictions of her body. Instead, she relies on the written word—with texts penned by herself, as well as by Denise Ferreira da Silva and Olumoroti Soji-George—and on art: paintings, drawings, and prints by Margaret Joba-Woodruff, Sophia Lapres, and David Ezra Wang.

A book inspired by the artist's research in intersectional environmentalism, deep listening, and decoloniality.

Fierce Unworking highlights Ko Murobushi's role as an unparalleled pioneer of contemporary paradigms such as body language, the third space or embodied knowledge. Ten years after his death, this volume brings together writings, poems and diary fragments in collaboration with the Ko Murobushi archive in Tokyo, making many of which are available in English for the first time.

A vast collection of Ettore Sottsass's writings, edited by design historian Emanuele Quinz.

A text by the Swiss artist, imbued with highly personal reflections on her relationship with creativity, notions of gender, motherhood, and the place of parenthood in the world of work (more specifically, the tensions inherent in the dual role of mother and artist).

In this essay, Alexandre Gérard recounts his discovery and interpretation—which was not entirely straightforward at first—of the work of his great-uncle, the artist Jean Dupuy (1925-2021).

Invited by Pierre Mabille, nine artists, from both sides of the Atlantic (Sheila Hicks, Fanette Mellier, Mathieu Mercier, Sarah Morris, Dan Walsh...), share their impressions of one of the 20th century's most influential abstract painters and teachers.

Invited by Marie de Brugerolle, ten artists, from both sides of the Atlantic (Ericka Beckman, Julien Bismuth, Sharon Lockhart, Tony Oursler, Anna Wittenberg...), look at the work of John Baldessari, one of the leading figures of West Coast conceptual art.

Ornella Volta's definitive posthumous book on Erik Satie, featuring all the composer's writings, largely unpublished documentation and biographical elements, for the first time precisely related to the works.

Superior and Inferior presents a facsimile reprint of Italian abstract artist and feminist Carla Accardi's provocatory publication Superiore e Inferiore and the first ever English translation of the full text.

In this anthology of essays, twelve artists explore radically self-reflexive research attitudes integrating embodied experiences within the production of theory.

The fifth issue of the annual publication dedicated to sound and music experimentation, co-published by Shelter Press and Ina GRM – Groupe de Recherches Musicales, around the topic of voice (with François J. Bonnet, Marja Ahti, Scott Arford, Nicolas Debade, Michael Gatt, Tim Ingold, Rolf Julius, Jules Négrier, John Richards, Marina Rosenfeld, Hildegard Westerkamp, Randy Yau...).

A fictional text by Geneva based artist Timothée Calame aka T. Freakson Calame: a collection of short stories that follow the urban wanderings of a protagonist through a series of unlikely events and encounters.

Four texts by Teri Wehn Damisch, attending to the conception of her films on artist Robert Morris, photographer Gisèle Freund and anthropologist Françoise Héritier.

Full-scale reproduction of the 1974 book by Ken Isaacs (1927-2016): a manual for creating various modular structures around the concept of the "matrix", it also provides an opportunity to immerse oneself in the philosophy of this pioneering architect, whose thinking in many respects resonates strongly with our own times.

Pati Hill's cult novel, available for the first time since 1976.

Pati Hill's cult novel, available in French for the first time since 1976 (also available in English edition).

A2 size offset folded poster of Sylvain George's essay "What the Night Sees".

A selection of texts by Valentine de Saint-Point, emblematic of both the Belle Époque and anticolonial militancy.

A book of fiction that brings together two environmentalist literary “fantasies” by Matali Crasset, with line drawings.

The collected writings of artist Marc Camille Chaimowicz, along with the stories behind them told by Alexis Vaillant.

Ross Bolleter's latest collection of poems draws on his experience as a musician/composer especially in the field of ruined piano, and includes tributes to Thelonious Monk and other luminaries who have inspired him over a lifetime of musical and poetic creation. This new book explores the themes of childhood, eros, love, death—and football.

Lionel Marchetti offers a highly personal, artist-to-artist reading of one of Pierre Henry's landmark works, through which he attempts to grasp all the poetic issues at stake in the art of musique concrète, and to identify the specificities of the genre.

Mousse celebrates its 90th issue with a collectible edition, with a special design and format, entirely focused on fiction.

The first documentary account by artist, curator and publisher Ludovic Burel, Le laboratoire de fermentation (The fermentation laboratory) retraces four years of investigation, carried out on several continents, into wild and cultivated plants and the means of fermenting them, questioning our relationship to both the human (individual and society) and the non-human (plant and other).

A book-length poem by Berlin based artist and poet Natalie Häusler.

Without ever giving a lesson in painting, Alain Gunst lists 32 reasons for painting that, “bad” or “not so bad”, take malicious pleasure in mocking an art world.

Rirkrit Tiravanija's methods for making less.

Artist Dan Graham and writer Jessica Russell's playful Architecture / Astrologie considers some of the most important and innovative figures in the world of architecture from an angle few would expect: their star signs.

A selection of Eisenstein's writings (new expanded edition).

A Hypothesis of Resistance contains five essays on Asynchronicity, Rehearsal, Undetectability, The Present Tense, and Duration.

Seven European women artists (Katinka Bock, Claire-Jeanne Jézéquel, Rachel Labastie, Mélanie Matranga, Juliette Minchin, Valérie Mréjen, Agnès Thurnauer) brought together by Sébastien Gokalp share their views on Eva Hesse (1936–1970), a major figure of the 20th century.

A comprehensive overview of the Hungarian post-conceptual and feminist artist's practice in the first decades of her fifty-year long career, including several of her writings.

The ultimate edition of percussionist Lê Quan Ninh's famous text, which explores, in the form of an ABC, the singular experience of improvising and free improvisation.

This edition presents the research of Brazilian choreographer, performer, teacher, visual artist, gardener, craftswoman and "post-pornographer" Acauã Shereya during her Master's degree in choreography and performance at ICI/CCN Montpellier.

The diary of the Korean-born artist based in France.

A collection of the artist's writings from 2019 to 2024.

An anthology of the constructivist movement, bringing together newly translated or previously unpublished writings by artists and theorists, accompanied by numerous illustrations and an extensive critical apparatus: this reference volume sheds new light on the multiplicity and diversity of the approaches of constructivism and productivism in the 1920s-30, and provides a major contribution to the studies of the Soviet avant-garde.

Three long poems by American writer, artist and actor Rene Ricard (1946-2014), an icon of the New York underground in the 1970s, accompanied by a series of drawings by American painter Robert Hawkins.

Gathering reflections and testimonies of exhibitions realized by Yann Annicchiarico in various countries, this looks back at a unique state of perception, related to the experience of emptiness and to the suspension of attention, an essential element in the artist's research.

This volume collects six fables Lin May Saeed (1973–2023) wrote in the early 2000s—the only ones the artist ever shared—which explore fundamental issues of interspecies coexistence, combining scientific, ethical, and philosophical motivations.

A partly autobiographical novel that the German surrealist artist and author Unica Zürn (1916-1970) wrote for her ten-year-old daughter in 1953, although it would never be published in her lifetime. This is the first translation of the tale from German into English.

A collection of walking and writing exercises to put our perspective about self and what is other to self, as well as the relations between things, even beyond the human, into question.

Pierre Wat invites height artists from both sides of the Atlantic to share their views of Sam Francis (1923-1994).

The Significance and Relevance of Early Modern Indian Painters to the Contemporary Indian Art, written in 1971, reevaluates the legacies of painting inherited by the artist Nilima Sheikh.

Indian artist Kiran Subbaiah reevaluates the history of Modernism, through its ideals of growth and progress, as one steeped in contradictions around industrialisation and its effects on society.

Conversation on art, real and imaginary, in 13 tableaux between ex-Action directe member Jann-Marc Rouillan and painter Laurent Marissal.